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| Moss, B, RF | ||||||||
| Cespedes, Y, LF | ||||||||
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| Sogard, E, 2B | ||||||||
| Suzuki, K, C | ||||||||
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BARELY KNEW HER!
Thanks, and go As.
So happy to get to catch a game today!
I see we have Zooks back, is he under contract for another year?
Here’s to hoping he wont feel like gum stuck to your shoe on a hot day, IIRC he was pretty good for a month or two after we traded him.
M O J O !
$8.5 million team option. So no.
Yeah, not worth it.
I am ready to watch my Astros play the Red Wings.
Looks muggy in Motor City.
I’m sure it is this time of year.
If Barton doesn’t put up a double-double I’m never believing in him again.
What if he EATS a double-double?
Meh, if it isn’t no onions, medium rare, mustard fried no pickles, chopped chilies, and ketchup instead of spread, then I’m not impressed.
Hmm…I need onions, mustard, pickles and keep that ketchup stuff as far away as possible.
No onions? I think you mean whole-grilled onion
This.
Everything should have onions.
I think you’ve mistaken nothing for everything.
I stand by my statement as it is.
I love onions…but perhaps not on everything.
EVERYTHING!
I’m with oz.
And that was your second mistake.
Hell is a giant onion
Perhaps. But heaven is a regular-sized onion.
jean paul sauté, is that you?
Ha!
Hehe!
Jason Kubel rumors are all a-swirl. Thoughts?
I want another hitter…he hasn’t been much of one.
I want Compliant Pig.
It looks like he still has a little pop left in the bat but his numbers are down…I can’t imagine he’d cost much.
No thank you.
this
a big old bag of nope!
Fuck no.
So, I think he I have 3 new BB episodes to catch up on, worth it?
Hell yes it is.
Awesome, was looking forward to it.
Need you even ask?
Most other TV shows fail in the final season.
But this is BB.
… most other tv shows call it a final season because they already failed.
Gp, but BB has been prone to get a bit silly/ unrealistic at times.
Too bad that one died, ugh.
That ball died, it never tried.
I really, really do not like Torii Hunter.
I don’t trust anyone with two i’s in Torii.
Especially when he strikes out looking, then hits a single next pitch.
Yah… Torii is such a GAY name (heh)
Strike 3…
I’m sure Straily is going to have fun with the Detroit lineup tonight
It’s troubling for sure. When is Anderson coming back?
September 3rd
Today. He’s in the bullpen.
I’d rather he start and Straily go to the ‘pen.
Oh nice.
I liked Kurt better w/ nail polish on.
I like all boys better with nail polish on.
Hee, nice to see you back Kay!
Yah, I came to my senses and started taking my pills again.
Testosterone is a very dangerous thing.
My posts in this game thread make more sense if you read them in the voice of Monte Moore.
Mine are intended in the voice of Monty Hall from “Let’s Make a Deal”.
This game thread has now gone Full Monty!
Mine make more sense if you read them in the voice of Roger Moore.
Hey a hit!
Nice start, lets score some A’s runz boys?
On their way!
I’m glad Barton’s getting his dinks and dunks and walks…
Working his way up the batting order. He’ll be hitting second by Game 1 of the World Series.
I’ll be ok with that.
that’s 4
I’m 39 years old and I still haven’t figured out if I like pecans or not.
I still can’t figure out how to pronounce pecan.
Now I’m really confused.
It shouldn’t sound like something truckers keep handy.
Took me a minute……eeeeew.
Exactly. Who would want to eat such a thing?
If you put a layer of dough over it and cook it. It becomes Pee Can Pie!
The trick is to keep it moist.
[waits for it]
the gf bought some heavenly pecan butter at the farmers market
Yes, you do.
Pralines.
What up my elf!
Keebs!
(clears throat) BASES ARE LOADED. NO ONE IS OUT. KURT KIYOSHI SUZUKI, YOU GET YOURSELF A HIT, YOUNG MAN.
there you go
I would have bet a lot of money on GIDP, run scores
I would’ve bet more on a comebacker, 1-2-3 DP.
I never got that chant
ZK!
Zooks!
Coco Mojo!
Zooks must be celebrating this new low and flat popup he’s discovered.
Heh
Nice.
brilliant!
win
Why no Callaspo tag? Is he really that slow, or was that closer than I think?
Gags seems really scared of Toriiiii’s arm. That was an excellent throw either way.
Relatedly, why is Callaspo playing instead of Smith?
He’s pretty slow.
Big rally prominently featuring Barton, Suzuki and Callaspo. Just like we planned it back in spring training.
I love baseball.
one would feel like failure, four would be over the top. I’d a settled for 2, three is good.
Runs Straily will give up this inning? Sounds reasonable.
Thanks Dirks.
yaybut quit it with the glove feeds please
Only way Lowrie gets it in time to turn 2.
Jemile, are you watching? That’s how you do the glove flip.
Any word on Weeks lately or is he AAAA toast?
Slusser’s column today predicted he would be up next week for pinch-running purposes.
only for sogard presumably
Mr. Slides over the bag and gets out?
Yeah, he has the worst running skills and poor instincts, I’m puzzled.
He’ll only pinch-run from 3rd.
That’s so sad.
From untouchable to unplayable in two seasons….
He’ll only PR for runners on 3rd.
Bottom of the ninth, down a run, Vogt on second. It’s better to have Weeks on the bench for that scenario than to not have him.
SuSlu said he will be a Sept. callup, but just to pinch run. Seems like AAAA toast mostly.
sigh. I wish jimmy rollins was an A
..and them move Lowrie to 2B?
IKR, from the Town even, it’s a no brainer…
Curse him for marrying a Philly girl.
gak
Wow, Milone down again.
To Single A
Eh, rosters expand on Sunday.
Sure, but has to hurt his self esteem a bit.
He probably understands that it was either him or Straily and Straily was scheduled to start today.
Or maybe he doesn’t and he’s out for revenge.
We can only hope.
He sounded like he was fine with it. If they sent him to Sacramento he’d have to stay for 10 days, but the Ports’ season is about to end, so he can be back sooner if they have the space.
If I’m counting right, he doesn’t even miss a start. Does he even have to leave the team? Or can he stay with the A’s and just not suit up?
He probably can’t go into the clubhouse or something like that. But he may not be leaving; his girlfriend’s tweeting from the stadium bar with some of the other wives and girlfriends. If he does have to report, or even take his regular start, it would be in Modesto, where the nuts come from.
and he has like 3 days to get there, right?
I’d like to shove that bat flip right up his ass.
Straily has allowed 5 hits and recorded 6 outs. I don’t like his odds of holding this lead.
Oops, 5 and 7. Now 6 and 7. Still, no bueno.
Fortunately, two rockets just became a 1B and F8. I assume that’ll just keep happening.
Yeah, I can’t imagine that hard hit balls will fall in.
Nothing bad happens when you walk tightropes right?
Never. Mediocre pitchers give up tons of hits to great lineups without allowing runs on a pretty regular basis.
Get Anderson up.
Cabrera looks like he’s playing on a little league field.
No matter what, Straily does not get a third turn through the order.
Well, I’m about ready for Brett Anderson, how’s about y’all?
IDK, Anderson has been pretty meh this year as well.
He’s been pretty mythical this year.
Right now, I’ll take meh over heart poundingly terrifying.
At what point do we state that Straily simply does not belong in an MLB rotation?
Last April?
Englishmajor and sslinger (or anyone else):
Are either of you going to Target Field for the A’s series there in a couple of weeks? Cuz I’m awash in Southwest Airlines points and am tired of breathing smoke. I don’t plan September baseball trips far in advance but it does look like that will be meaningful, at least for the WC. Game tickets look easy.
Yes, I’m going. And I haven’t bought game tix yet. It’s hell-hot in Mpls right now, but supposed to be more like 75-80 range in two weeks.
I’m going to cogitate for a couple hours but I think this is a Go. Minneapolis is one of the few MLB cities where I have never seen a game so this is a good opportunity to take advantage of Twins suckitude.
Email me at nlthorsen at gmail if you want to coordinate. And anyone else who’s up for an impulse trip but doesn’t have Southwest points to burn, Sun Country has SFO-MSP fares for less than $350 for those dates.
OK. I have the flights and rental car lined up. That’s what a 10-1 lead in Game 3 in Detroit will do for you. Will get an e-mail going among me, you and sslinger about game tickets and hotel/restaurant advice.
You should love that place.
Holy shit, thank you baseball gods.
Barton at first is pretty nice.
Yep. There’s hope for Craig Paquette yet!
Straily, while likeable enough, finds just far too may barrels with two strike pitches. He seems to get less gutsy in the zone and less commanding the deeper an AB goes.
C’mon BoMel you have to be seeing this. Now is a perfect time to get Anderson stretched out.
You can’t take Straily out! You gotta give him a chance to get the win! Never mind that you’re hurting the team’s chances to do the same.
Do you throw Anderson right into the fire against Hunter-Cabrera-Fielder-Martinez? Seems kind of sketchy.
You can go to Otero or Chavez. I don’t care as long as it’s not Straily.
…or we could just solve our problems with multiple A’s runs here.
Straily cannot be allowed to face the middle of this order again. Can. Not.
Ewwww. Let’s never do that again
Cute reaction by Zooks there. He’s so adorable when he screws up.
Lots of practice
Thank the baseball gods that Milone got that CG yesterday. There’s gonna be plenty of work for the pen today.
Geez, Iglesias is ridiculous.
anybody make out what iglesias was mouthing?
[inserts preemptive “cucurucucu” here.]
Moss! I didn’t expect that to carry so far
We seem to do well in innings when they put up the Oakland University ad behind the plate.
heh
FK yeah! (mostly.)
Over the top!
Ok, even Straily can hold this lead right?
oh jeez
VInce picks up on the “book rule double” YAY!
rule book?
huh, I don’t remember now. I did rush to th ‘puter to type it, so could be operator error
It sounds like that Puig kid is a handful but when you’re talented you can get away with more as long as you keep hitting.
wow. on 3 pitches and everything.
I haven’t watched all of the three games but the parts I’ve seen have been impressive for our offense.
i gotta go, but i’ll just say this and hope it holds: “aliens.”
super aliens. 14?? can i haz points retro’d to last october?
What the hell is this?
shhhhhhhhhh. I don’t think they know
Roxy: “Every a has at least one hit tonight except coco, the motor of the a’s offence, but they are still finding a way to score runs.”
uh, I think its because the other eight dudes have been getting hits, like you said at the begining of the sentence.*
*I still like him 100 times more than vince**
***may be an overstatement. might be 50 times***
***any amount above twice as much really
Dude
I’m enjoying this game.
Holy bajeezus. I have no clue who these guys are.
the rangers?
what a horrible call by vince.
I thought that was an out.
apparently it was swung on gone
Kuiper called it correctly.
Wow, this is amazing. I won’t take this series to mean anything more than these four games, but it sure does feel good to beat up on these Tigers for a change.
That’s not how it works.
When we lose a series IT’S THE WOST EVER WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FUCK LEW WOLFF THIS TEAM HATES ITS FANS AND OAKLAND AND CALIFORNIA AND PROBABLY LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS CUT EVERYBODY FUCK YOU BILLY BEANE.
So if we win a series, obviously we’re the 27 Yankees. Right? No??
Thanks, and go As.
See, I keep it simple…I just hate Oakland.
JENNIFER SMASH HATE THINGS RAWR
I think few of us would have been surprised, at the start of this series, to be told that one team would go into double digits before the seventh inning of game 3, with aspirations to a sweep.
If I was wearing pants I would have shit them already.
You shit the couch then?
Yeah I have the TV on with the radio sound (cuz it’s perfectly in sync) and just from Hunter’s spectator reaction, you knew it was way out.
I still don’t feel like the lead is safe.
Shut up about the pies you idiots.
WAY TO GO DAN! YOU ARE A BULLDOG! I ALWAYS BELIEVED IN YOU DAN!
I gotta say, after the last game in Baltimore I did in now way see “I hope Colon comes back aces and they beat Scherzer and get the sweep in Detroit” as my Thursday morning internal monologue.
*in no way
WTF? no fielder or cabrera? what’s with the white flag in the 7th?
The Motown Beatdown continues
Who the hell is this guy?
This has been a rather successful trip so far, now.
life’s been good to him so far.
Wrong thread?
I still feel a little robbed from Baltimore. The A’s should have taken 2 out of 3 there.
that one game was horrifying
I think 1-2 was a fair result. It’s the Seattle series I’m still pissed about. All the Seattle series, really.
fair, yes. reasonable? no. intelligent? fk no.
Look at it this way: the A’s are about to go for a 4 game sweep in Detroit tomorrow against Scherzer.
After Sunday most of us probably would have figured they’d be trying to avoid being swept tomorrow.
I was hoping for a 3-4 roadie, and it’ll be at least 4-3, so it’s all good.
8-game trip, right?
Er, wait. Didn’t realize Tampa Bay’s coming here, ha. Even then, that would’ve been a 10-game trip.
Maths are hard.
94, 93, 94, 83, 83, 94, 83,
Nice splits.
Nice play, Barton!
I missed watching plays like that…
I’m thinking Anderson gets the save tonight.
I hope so.
3 solid innings would be a good thing to see.
It would be the first of his professional career. That would be fun.
Oh ye of little faith!
this was the make-or-break road trip, and the answer seems to be “make.”
There are going to be more frustrating pitching performances along the way, and we’re not going to win the division. It’ll be the first wild card, and we’re most likely playing Boston.
Detroit will come next, and if you think that’s gonna be a dogfight, the A’s-Rays ALCS will make you fkin’ CRY, even if the A’s do win, which is still a big cloud in the crystal ball at this time.
an A’s-Rays ALCS might be the greatest postseason series in MLB history
winner gets the winner of Pittsburgh/Cincinnati
It would be bittersweet.
It would be World War VI
Not in the slightest.
I’m with GM. I like the Rays generally, but when they’re playing the A’s, I wish all manner of collapse upon them
i hope we get the manner with timely hits and not a lot of field time.
oh wait. you said “collapse.”
Oooh, I love that song so much.
I always figured it would be the song which played while the screen faded to black and the credits rolled in my movie.
I expect mine to be “Louie Louie.”
Classic DLD
My list of top 5 Neil Young songs would probably need to have about 50 songs on it.
That is so awesome.
Although it doesn’t really seem like the AN I knew. Where are all the truly terrible commenters?
Wow, I haven’t thought about that one in a really long time.
I put it on when I was writing that, and by the end of the song, my wife was like “This song is KILLING me!”
and I was all… “but… but… I was SEEING things, and look, Moss homered too!”
She understood.
Ground balls, baby. Love it.
If anderson goes three, and doesn’t give up 9 runs, he gets a save
*points above*
Yes, it’s one inning, but that was nice to see.
He looks great.
Thanks, I’ve been working out.
It really shows.
(flexes)
that’s a triple torii, a triple strike
They should have made him carry the candy bag, though.
Eric Chazuki always hits well when it doesn’t matter
I wonder what kind of contract CY25 gets next year. The way he is going it may be denominated in Yen.
He’s in Jake Taylor quote land to me…he couldn’t cut it in the Mexican League.
He may go right past Yen and have to settle for pesos.
Won, baby!
Torii just loves that stupid deke.
Sometimes I don’t understand this team.
take that Leyland. You are not going to get away with two pitchers tonigt
I wanna see a position player pitch.
I always want to see that.
It’s one louder, innit.
hey bed, drew smylie is from littlerock. you know him? 2011 draft pick
I know him well…and by well I mean I’ve never heard of him.
don’t you teah at the one room school house in arkansas?
This series has been unexpected. I go into tomorrow expecting nothing, again. It’s worked out well thus far.
Wow.
Moss catches the TD pass for the A’s second TD.
I walked away for a minute and we scored three more times. OK.
LOLigers.
score more runs or I throw a chair
He’ll do it. He’s crazy!
I hear that kid Bonderman is going to be good one day. Too bad we traded him away.
I got a new pair of glasses earlier today. Am I seeing this score right?
Seriously Vince, STOP NAMING FORMER A’s PLAYERS, you will give Billy ideas.
Don’t know why that came as a reply.
Them’s fightin’ words.
you have less than an hour and a half to cross the eastern span
Wait, that’s Jeremy Bonderman? Did not know he was still in the league, let alone still with the Tigers.
he beat the A’s as a mariner, no?
I think he did…
Yes…I was at that game…
He came back there this year after the Mariners told him goodbye.
I am liking this less
Re: starting vs. relieving, maybe they know something about Anderson that we don’t.
His single-A rehab start was the same way. Struck out the side in the first, ended up giving up 5 runs in 3+ innings.
anderson’s velocity seems fine.
they better keep him in. I don’t want to use anyone else
Nice play CY. Very smooth.
I’m glad we still have a ten-run lead so I can just laugh at CY25’s complete ineptitude.
with standard defense, would the A”s give up only 1? maybe?
Would moss or barton have gotten the single past first?
NICE SHUT DOWN INNING BRETT!
Butt worms. That’s how my day was.
So how has Callaspo been?
getting on base.
not so much in the field
So the DH actually makes sense a bit.
yes
He can hit a little. He’s a nightmare with the glove.
OK, I switched to Cleveland-Atlanta. I’ve had enough Fosse for the evening.
Holy carp, that pitcher fielded a ball!
oh my god! is he dead?
As predicted, there’s the save for Anderson in a 14-4 win. First of his career.
While still managing to increase his already 6+ ERA.
pitch to the score, the will to win
Hey, FKers, I’m home! What did you make me for dinner? Mmmmm, tiger stew, my favorite.
Clevelose
Ooh, Oriolose too.
4 game cushion on a playoff spot.
As long as it doesn’t get to 6.
btw, the producers of the pregame show on the radio have spliced the walk off capital of baseball call. they lead with vince explaining that Moss drove in runs, then go to what he said before he explained the play “Oakland is the walkoff capital of baseball”
Haha
Looking at the remaining schedules, I wouldn’t be surprised if the A’s/Rangers plus the Clevelands were the two WC teams. The Clevelands have an even easier September run in than we do, while the Eastern teams are likely to batter each other into submission.
I really really think Boston’s gonna go in the toilet in September.
That would not be unprecedented.
I like the way you think, lady.
It wouldn’t surprise me, but you never know with Cleveland. They are a very streaky team.
The Astros have been eliminated from the AL West race.
wow.
Magic number for wild card elimination is also 1.
Aaaand now eliminated.
Well, they gave it a good run.
That after after game 1. And they won that game.
I WAS RIGHT! ANDERSON WENT THREE INNINGS.*
*nevermind I thought it was going to start in the 3rd.
Mmm.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2013/08/29/erroneous-story-claiming-houston-astros-most-profitable-ever-a-massive-strikeout/
Now why can’t we get articles like this about politics?
Because of those damn liberals.
All I know is that both the Democrats and Republicans are equally at fault.
Well sure. If you want to be serious.
Morse to L’Orioles, from the sound of it. We never hadda chance.
They’ve put in the waiver claim (like they did with Willingham), but has a deal been done?
Some beat writers were tweeting that they think it will happen. No reason for the M’s to keep him, really.
Other than to save face on the Morse trade from last offseason, you’re probably right.
I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!!!!